Weekend Audio – Financial Planning: What’s Your Number?

All the hoopla in the news right now about the “financial crisis” has everyone, lawyers included, on edge about the safety of their retirement assets. Which raises the question of how much is enough when it comes to putting money aside for retirement. Many lawyers, particularly those who practice as solos or in [...]

What’s In Your Wallet?

That catchy slogan for one of the credit card companies took on a different meaning earlier this week. A friend of mine had out-of-town company visiting and when he went out to go to the bank and buy a paper one morning he lost his wallet. Something we’ve all done at one time [...]

A Few Thoughts on Business Continuity

The Casemaker Legal Research System was down for a couple of hours one day last week as a result of extensive power outages in Ohio due to the remnants of Hurricane Ike. During the outage we received quite a few calls from lawyers wanting to know why the system was down and when it would [...]

Early Warning Auto Safety Complaints Database Now Available

If you think back, you probably remember the recall of Firestone tires in 2000. But it didn’t happen until after a critical mass of anecdotes and hard news regarding serious accidents was built. Long story short, as a result Congress required manufacturers to provide information on safety complaints about their products that they [...]